Carmella the Pregnant Camel: Or, Camping in the Black and White Deserts
May 10th 2009 Bahariyya Oasis is a teardrop-shaped cluster of date palms, rock, hot springs and flowers about 400 kilometers southwest of Cairo. It’s linked by a slender little wedge of green to Farafra Oasis, and surrounding all of this are massive sheets of desert stretching for hours on all sides.
The main “city” in Bahariyya is called Bawiti, a bright, ancient, eerily peaceful little town, which is t
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